{"id":433,"date":"2013-02-10T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.org\/messages\/?p=433"},"modified":"2013-10-10T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T16:17:07","slug":"how-to-be-certain-of-your-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/2013\/how-to-be-certain-of-your-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Be Certain of Your Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Outline&mdash;2 Peter 1:4&ndash;10<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Faith\u2019s characteristics (v. 4)<\/li>\n<li>Faith\u2019s companions (vv. 5&ndash;7)<\/li>\n<li>Faith\u2019s contrast (vv. 8, 9)<\/li>\n<li>Faith\u2019s task (v. 10)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>12 Ways To Be Sure You Are Saved (for more details on how to use these verses, read <a href=\"\/blogpastor\/2013\/what-does-the-bible-say-about-knowing-whether-you-are-born-again\">this blog post<\/a>) <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Am I walking in the light? Are my ways changing? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;1:7)<\/li>\n<li>Do I confess my sins to God? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;1:9)<\/li>\n<li>Do I keep His commandments? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;2:3)<\/li>\n<li>Do I love the other born-again believers? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;2:10)<\/li>\n<li>Am I continuing in the faith? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;2:19)<\/li>\n<li>Am I abiding in the Lord? Is sin becoming less desirable? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;3:6)<\/li>\n<li>Do I hate the things of the world\u2014things that distract me from my relationship with God? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;3:15)<\/li>\n<li>Do I pray regularly? Is prayer part of my atmosphere? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;3:22)<\/li>\n<li>Am I a sucker for evil? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;4:1-3)<\/li>\n<li>Do I live in a spiritually fearful state? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;4:18\u201319)<\/li>\n<li>Am I a victor or a victim? Am I an overcomer or overcome? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;5:4)<\/li>\n<li>Am I sure I am born again because I know verses where God assures me of it? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;5:13)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Download Recording<\/h3>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20130210hi.mp3\" rel=\"external\" onclick=\"pageTracker._trackEvent('Messages', 'Download', 'msg20130210hi.mp3');\">Broadband<\/a> Connection (Approx. 22 MB)<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20130210lo.mp3\" rel=\"external\" onclick=\"pageTracker._trackEvent('Messages', 'Download', 'msg20130210lo.mp3');\">Dial-Up<\/a> Connection (Approx. 2.7 MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline&mdash;2 Peter 1:4&ndash;10 Faith\u2019s characteristics (v. 4) Faith\u2019s companions (vv. 5&ndash;7) Faith\u2019s contrast (vv. 8, 9) Faith\u2019s task (v. 10) 12 Ways To Be Sure You Are Saved (for more details on how to use these verses, read this blog post) Am I walking in the light? Are my ways changing? (1&nbsp;John&nbsp;1:7) Do I confess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,73,78,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}